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A recent front page article said teachers are going to have take one day off with no pay. It is wrong to furlough school teachers for even one day. School teachers have committed their working careers to teaching in public schools. Many of them could have gone into better-paying jobs, but they have chosen to teach the young people in our schools.

The Carolina Thread Trail is in its visionary stage now. How it will develop – even if it will develop – isn’t entirely clear now.

But the vision calls for a trail that connects locations in 15 counties in both Carolinas that are popular with tourists, hikers and nature lovers.

Andrew Jackson State Park and Forty Acre Rock preserve, both in Lancaster County, and Landsford Canal State Park, which is situated in both Chester and Lancaster counties, could be destinations included in the Thread Trail.

I have had the pleasure of getting to know Rob McCoy over the last few months. I could tell from the moment I met him that he was an honest, good-hearted person. Rob is also the type of person to stand up for what he believes in and voice his concerns. When he announced that he would be running for the South Carolina House in District 44, I knew that he was the right man for the job. Rob is a proven leader and true conservative. He served for six years in the National Guard and has been an active participant in the TEA Party movement in Lancaster County.

On Feb. 23, Lancaster City Council discussed the annexation of properties on Charles Avenue in Arrowood Estates. City Council wanted to get these properties annexed into the city to start a domino effect that would eventually encompass the entire estate. The vote ended the right way, with a no vote taking the majority. But the way these meetings went were far from comforting.

The Senate has been in session now for about five weeks, or roughly 15 legislative days. In that time, a lot has happened – at least for the Senate.

First off, things move much more slowly in the Senate than the House. Some say this is because the Senate is a more “deliberative body.” That may be. More likely, though, the difference is due to the filibuster, which permits a single senator to bring a particular bill to a halt.

I am writing in response to Lynne Carrroll’s sarcastic and misleading letter, “Spratt should focus on jobs for constituents,” in the Feb. 12 edition of The Lancaster News. The author said she was absolutely infuriated because Congressman Spratt and a delegation of members of the House Budget Committee had traveled to Afghanistan.

In the next week you should be getting a Census questionnaire in the mail. The form has 10 questions and is estimated to take 10 minutes to fill out.

After the official Census kickoff in January, we encouraged everyone to fill the form out and make sure everyone in their household is counted. We outlined the critical reasons then for completing the form and will reiterate them.